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v* WATER BEARER
By J. ALLAN DUNN
Axthn of "A MAN TO HB MATE"
-E1MROC* TRAIL"
6 By Dodd. Hh 4 * Co.
WKÜ «M-Ttoo
HERO AND HEROINE
Here's a new kind of story of
the West
lie MfliMrlns. Mining, ranch
ing, lumbering and railroad
building have been tbe favorite
subjects of tbs flctlontsts and
many a good story havs thsy
riven us. Here's a new kind of
hero—a young New Engländer
born nndar the sodlao sign of
Aquarius and destined to be in
very truth a "Water Bearer."
The heroine Is a "native daugh
ter" of California. And around
the water-bearing exploit of the
Eastern man and the Weetern
girl revolve fascinating adven
tures "by flood and Held" and a
story of true love that runs far
from smoothly at times. As for
ths author—why, v.he's J. Allan
Dunn, whose Western stories
have deservedly won for him a
wide popularity. And here East
meets West—and a stirring ro
mance grows out of the meeting.
romance of hydrau
CHAPTER I
r
The Canyon
Caleb Warner conscientiously fished
every foot of the llkeliest-looklng hole
be had seen on Hermanoa creek, bat
there came no rise, no eager tug, no
submerged gleam of a rainbow's shim
mering flank.
He waded ashore, pat up rod and
tackle, climbed through the thick, tall
ferns and brambly undergrowth to the
narrow trail and turned upstream.
All the day was his, tbe next, for that
matter, and he fancied tbe fishing
would be better higher np. Caleb
walked with his coat tucked between
the slings of bis creel, his shirt open
at the throat; lean, long, well-shoul
dered and slender-flanked, tanned of
akin, springy of action, generally good
to'-look at By the canons of moving
pictures and magazine Illustrations he
was not handsome. New England an
cestry had made blifl too aquiline at
feature, but he had youth and
strength, his gray eyes were clear, hla
forehead high to his straight close
cropped hair, his lips clean-cat and
his chin well forward, not too narrow.
Hla general make-up was typically
American, ^„Yankee-American,
marred by inbreeding.
Below him Hermanoa creek sang,
half hidden by the undergrowth. Hla
economic, New England brain saw po
tentiality going to waste.. In Massa
chusetts Hermanns creek would long
ago have been harnessed. Mills and
factories would have sprung up along
Its banka Here was water for steam,
for turbines, for commercial and do
mestic use, for Irrigation; all unused,
its energy seemingly doomed, for there
was a peculiar thing about the creek
that Caleb, aa an engineer, had noted.
Contrary to the habit of moat well
mannered watercourses, its volume
diminished as It flowed.
un
He was twenty-seven, six years out
of tbe college chrysalis that be had
spun at Colombia. Be had served In
the war, bard, practical service in
tasks that were low-grade bat neces
sary, the crude, swift work of build
ing and repairing war-roads and
bridges, and In it Caleb Warner had.
In large measure, found himself. He
had acquired initiative,
resource,
mand of men, if nothing else. And he
had come out unscathed, unwounded,
ungassed, reduced to an acme of co
ordination, sane mind aiyd sound body.
He had been granted wider horizons
So he bad come west to find bla oyster
-—and to open it
Swiftly the woody cave of the can
yon became a tunnel, the creek now
for below him In a water-chiseled
gorge. Tbe tunnel became a gut A
suspension bridge, a shivery thing of
wire rope and short planks, anchored
with wire cables to high walls of rock,
crossed the gorge. It shook under bis
tread and bung trembling aa be
stopped midway to look at the gosh
of compressed water surging through
the gap. twenty feet down. There
were signs on the rock that at times
the creek rose close to the flooring.
Before him, to the sooth, lay Her
manoa valley, a green bowl lipped by
rolling hills, their crests bronzed by
the summer sun. blazoned with great
patches of golden popples, with
clumps of purple lupine, the lower
slopes furred thick with wild oats
waving In the wind, oats aa high aa
Caleb's bead, a shimmering sea of em
erald and silver.
He stood for a while undecided
whether to adventure on to the water
foil or to stay where be was until it
was time to flab down the canyon with
the hope of better results than tbe
three trout his persistence had lured
from the creek. He had a book tucked
Into hla pocket but he was not tired.
And be bad lunched an hour before.
Ths view held him. Looking down.
saw that the streaun waa a vagrant,
that, la the raina, one bed was not
enough to coo Wry Ha waten. A sec
odd course, now dry and partly grown
over, erratically paralleled the actual
creek. Willows bordered It
ao fast H seemed a grey streak, head
«ring ground at a frantic pare
. After H,
fifty yarfls away
but gaining at every bound, sped a
gallant beautiful hound, white-coated,
taper-mauled, bearing Its tall like a
great plume, overhauling the coyote
with tremendous leaps, going at a ter
rific rate, yet so smoothly that Ita
speed seemed effortless—a Russian
wolfhound.
Beyond the willow fringe came her
mate, bound for bound, level with the
bitch, unseen, though perhaps not un
known to the coyote.
Then, from a thicker growth of
trees, outmatched bat traveling fast
a pinto flashed Into Caleb's view, a
boy crouched low on the withers,
welded to the horse, urging It on.
Caleb thrilled to the chase as It
swept on beneath him. admiring the
horsemanship of the figure In
breeches, puttees and fluttering
blouse, a little envious of it
"Gad. he can ride," he muttered.
A cap blew off, a long tress of chest
nut hair, ruddy as a flame, whipped
out was reached for and tacked In
by its owner, only to stream errant
again. The boy was a girl I
The bitch was almost up with the
coyote, the dog, watchful through the
gaps in the willows, came circling In,
Jaws agape, ready for the kllL The
coyote made a last desperate effort
The bitch, with one enormous leap,
came abreast She lunged, her white
neck like a snake's for speed and tln
□oneness, her teeth clamping down on
the forefoot of the coyote. Caleb saw
the latter checked, tumbling, heard a
broken snarl of defiance, and then the
second hound sprang In a white gleam
of fury, too swiftly for him to catch
the action. Ita powerful Jaws, bred
for the work, crunched through the
vertebrae of the coyote's neck. The
hunt was ended.
The girl rode up at a gallop,
checked the pony in midstride and slid
to the turf while the two hounds
thrust their muzsle at her. With one
X/
The Boy Wai a Olri. „
band she patted them while with the
now fairly down her shoulder*^ reach
ing to her belt
"Good boy, Saratof I Good girt.
Steal"
Caleb beard her faintly but plainly
and shouted down hla own meed of
applause. He bad left most of hla In
nate reserve behind him in Europe
and the stir of the hunt still held him.
"Bully for both of them I" he cried
and waved hla bat as tbe girl looked
up. She smiled, waved back an un
gloved hand at him In western friend
liness, and finished the up twisting of
her hair without embarrassment Ca
leb started down through the oats. He
loved dogs. Be did not know so mach
about girls. Bat this one seemed dif
ferent And be bad left the conveo
tlona behind In Massachusetts.
She smiled at him again aa be came
out on tbe level, half waded, half
Jumped the creek and went toward
her. Tbe wolfhounds looked at Ylm
with their dark brown eyes, sniffed,
accepted hla pats and termed their
heads away, pointedly aloof. The
girl laughed at his evident chagrin.
'They are disdainful beasts, my bor
sola," aha said. "Yon moat excuse
them."
"They are marvelous runners. I
did not suppose anything could over
haul a coyote. But It hardly seemed
fair up there on tbe hill. Two to
one. I mean."
She looked at him quizzically. She
waa frankly surveying hint. He noted
that ahe was about six inches shorter
than be was—which made her five
sUm and rounded, that she had a
short straight nose and a mouth that
was neither small nor targa. neither
nor narrow, a round chin.
a dimple to one cheek, and that her
eyea were the exact color of the I o
pines. Also that there was no noo
mom about hop. A part of Caleb's
coiTicalBin. a majority of his experi
ence. had cooalatod in the training.
of his powers of observation, in th#
brief glances ho bod permitted him
"There are not very many coyotes
where yon come from V" she queried.
"How do you know?" She laughed
and he added that and her teeth to
the catalogue. Both were, to bla taste,
perfect.
"How do I know? I am sure now.
Dorn anyone but a Tank reply to a
question with another one?"
"Tank! Are yon a southerner?"
"There yon go again. Walt I
moat answer your charge against my
dogs. If yon think it was not sport
ing to set Saratof and Siva against
one coyote, how abont my helpless
calf that was butchered last night?
And half a dosen others this summer.
And a colt I There are probably fifty
coyotes who make this valley their
larder. Oabilan shelters scores of
them. And these two have accounted
for nine of them. It la sheer Justice,
administered mercifully. The coyote
always has the start. It U killed In
stantly, not worried, not touched
afterward. My bonola don't eat car
rion."
"Acquitted," answered Caleb. "1
beg their parddha. I am a Yankee
from Massachusetts. I am a civil en
gineer come west to seek my fortune.
My name la Caleb Warner. I live In
Golden and I was recommended ta
Herrn a nos creek for trout flatting.
She had a trick of looking through
tong lashes that was a bit unfair. Ca
leb thought But they did not bide a
twinkle that lurked behind them.
"Did you catch any trout Mr. War
ner?" ahe asked. He showed her his
basket
"We have trout In New England.'
he said. "I was hoping to do bettet
later In the afternoon. Did you agy
you were from the South?"
"I am a Californian." He was cer
tain that she knew he had hoped sb«
would give him her name in return
"The best fishing la In the canyoi
back of the waterfall at the bead
our valley," she said. "You can eastl)
climb the dlff."
"Ton own It? The valley?" Sh»
opened her eyes a%lt In acknowledg
ment of his persistence and speed t«
take the opening.
—"My father does. His name Is Clin
ton." She had evaded It cleverly
Miss Clinton. That was as far a*
she would go. Caleb bowed to hit
defeat
"Well, then. Miss Clinton, do yoo
think your father would have any oh
Jectlon to my fishing through hli
meadows, later, after I have been
above the fall?"
"I am quite sure he would not Per
haps yon would like to meet him'
The house Is not very far from here.'
Caleb laughed and she with him.
"I should be delighted," he said
"And I am very glad to have met you
Miss Clinton." She took hla hand and
shook It aa a boy might have shaken
It More strongly, with fingers that
were firm and cool. There was noth
lag of coquetry about her. Her sug
gestion that Caleb meet her fathei
held, he felt no hjpf of flirtation
showed tnaf she liked bun, à little
sufficiently to dispense a measure ol
hospitality that he had come to rec
ognlze aa a western attribute.
■The house Is there," she said
"Back
Jl
pointing. those encalypts
Father planted them for a wind
break."
The girl had left the pinto ponj
standing with Ita reins hanging
straight from bit to soil, an effectlvs
haltering. Now she placed them about
its neck, their buckle back of th<
saddle-born and, aa she and Caleb
walked along the stream toward tb*
boose the pony followed as closely
and sedately as the wolfhounds.
Evidently Mias Clinton la what
we Americana call "a nice girl,"
with Individual attractions. Does
the Yankee measure up 7
(TO BZ CONTINUED. >
Colonims Classified
In 1600 the American colonies wer«
divided under the following class Ilka
tlona; Royal, proprietary and repub
I lean. The classification Is based upon
the three different methods by which
their governors obtained office. At
this date the following colonies were
royal : New Hampshire, Massa chu
setts. New York. Virginia and Maryland
(temporarily). The proprietary colo
ales were Pennsylvania, Delaware, Nea
jersey and tbe Carolinas. Of tbe 1st
ter group only tbe first two remained
proprietary. Tbe rest became royal
while Maryland was restored to tbe
Baltimore family. Rhode bland and
Connecticut aime retained their elec
tive governors and so may be classed
■a republican.
Transmitting Light Rays
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.. fr.nainlaaloo factor
m «teas la about »2 rwr cent in ™
ïffl," ÎSTi? £
bring that reflected at tbe two sur
faces. The amount of light transmit
ted varies with the angle of Incidence
and tb« refractive Index of the glass
The reflector will absorb from 10 ta
40 per cent of tho light Incident npot
it.
DAIRY
START DAIRYING
IN SPRING BEST
When the grass turps green In the
spring, farmers usually think more
about live stock and, as a rule, most
beginners In dairying start their new
business during the early spring
months, and there is very tittle doubt
that the.appearance of grass is an la
centlve to tills line of thought sod a#
tlon. concluded J. P. LaMaster, chief
of the dairy division at CSemson col
lege.
A great majority of milk cows In
th<* state freshen during the spring,
which helps to produce Interest In
dairying at this season of the year, be
cause when a surplus of milk la pro
duced the farmer usually looks
around for a market for this product
He soon realises that with one 4o
three cows he cannot expect any v«*y
great return, and therefore decides to
add three or four more cows to bis
herd. In this way he grows into the
dairy business, which is undoubtedly
the very best policy. However, there
are many reasons why It Is beat to
have the dairy cows freshen In* the
fall, and for the same reason It Is
usually the best policy to start a new
dairy business at that season of the
With the spring pastures there usu
ally come certain noxious weeds, such
as wild onions and bitter weed, whloh
produce bad flavors and odors in the
milk of cows which grase them. As
yet no satisfactory method haa been
determined to eliminate these objec
tionable flavors from milk after It la
drawn from the cow. The only way
the farmer can control these flavors ia
.»•um
to either destroy the weeds Is the pas
ture or remove the cows from pas
tures Infested with these weeds at
least three hours before milking time.
Sometimes green rye and oats pas
tu re produce them bad flavors and
odors In the milk. This can be con
trolled by the same procedure as out-1
lined above.
Grain Mixtures Useful
for Feeding the Calves
— Bran and cracked corn make very
good calf feed and whenever possible
they should form the basis of tbe
grain mixture. Ground oats are like
wise good but, because they are usual
ly high In price as c ompa re d with
other farm grains, their use la not
general.
Corn has a desirable effect on calves
and to a certain extent '«places the
butterfat removed from the milk. Many
tests prove cracked more desirable
than when finely ground. By the time
a calf la two weeks old it wilt start
nibbling grain if given a chance and
at one month will eat half a pound a
day. In case a mixture of feeds is de
sired there ore several good ones.
1. Three parts cracked corn and one
part wheat bran.
2. Three paru cracked corn, one
t part wheat bran and one part ground
j oats,
j ately after the calves have finished
' drinking their milk,
8. Three parts cracked corn, one
part wheat bran, one part ground oats
and one part ollmeal.
4 . Five parts cracked corn, one
part ground oats and one part blood
I meal.
Feed grain dry In troughs, Itnmedl
Calves three
months old will eat about three pounds
of grain a day.
Balance Ration of Cows
to Need of Individus
Because feed prices are lower than
lost year and butterfat prices some
what higher, manyjttalrymen are feed
Ing more grain and purchased feeds
than a year ago. Dairy division men
at University Farm, St Paul, Mlniu,
say that tbe grain ration gives best
results when fed according to tbe in
dividual milk production of the cow.
When a good grade of rough ag«
Is available—and the cows should
have all they can clean up—one pound
of grain to each three to. four pounds
of milk produced will be suffi cent In
a ration without clover or alfolfo bay.
goodly quantities of feed rich in pro
tein, such aa linseed meal, cottonseed
meal or bran, must be added In order
to balance the ration to the needs ol
the animal.
i The dairy calf cannot run with iti
mother on tbe dean pasture ; the bee)
calf can. Tbe dairy calf most N
weaned within a day or so after birth
When sucking Its dam, the cow's uddei
and teats should best be kept clean K
'hat the calf will not become Infected
with germs that might produce Indices
tkm and diarrhea. Therefore, the coa
>a d the calf should be kept In a deal
place—away from filth, manure .and in
fectloo,
Some Dairy Calf Dangers
Calves Without Milk
A dairy expert of the Missouri sta
i tlo ° "»• thflt <■*»» <*"*• aft * r th *>
are three or four weeks old can b»
rata *<> successfully wlthont milk. H<
the lack of skimmed milk
I » — » "» Sue *•»* Ü,
rahflng calves by hand, and finds thaï
calf meals, as substitutes for milk
are bring sold extensively. "They an
fairly satisfactory but are rather big!
In price a* compared to home iiiIxm
feed which will give equal and »ft**
superior results."
P®nf
FEEDING TURKEYS
IMPORTANT PHASE
(Pr*p«r»<l by th« Unlt»<3 Statu Department
of Xsrtcalturo. )
Feeding the young birds Is one of
tthe most Important phases of turkey
raising. Uuwholesome feeds and Im
proper methods of feeding, especially
In the case of turkeys closely confined,
have resulted In many failures.
For the first two days after hatch
ing the poults require no feed, access
to clean drinking water and a little
coarse sand and green feed to peck
at being sufficient Beginning with
the third day they should be ted. the
amount given them varying with the
quantity of natural feed they are able
to pick up outside the coop. It is best
to keep them more or less hungry.
When the range provides an abun
dance of green feed and Insects, the
growing poults require but little extra
feeding. More losses are attributable
to overfeeding, perhaps, than to alt
other causes. One harmful effect of
overfeeding Is that It removes the nec
essity for hunting food, with the re
sult that little exercise Is taken and
Indigestion develops. Sanitary feed
ing places are also very Important
and, above all, the soil should be kept
sweet and clean.
When natural teed Is scarce or when
the poults have to be kept from rang
ing outside, It la advisable to feed them
about five times a day. If allowed to
run outside the coop where they can
Und Insects, seeds, and green feed, two
or three feedings a day will be enough.
If the poults are ted regularly every
night, In a short time they will re
turn nightly to their proper roosting
quarters. Never allow the feed to be
come moldy. A good plan Is to teed
the poults on boards, cleaning off any
feed that may remain after feeding,
and standing the boards In the sun to
dry.
Buttermilk has been found very ben
eficial In bringing poults successfully
through the early stages A good prac
tice la to keep the milk In front of
the young birds during the morning
and water during the afternoon. If grit
and green teed cannot be picked up
outside the coop, they must be pro
vided In some other way.
Loss on Bad Eggs
The United States Department of
Agriculture estimates that the total |
. __
reaches the consumer Is $45.000,000. (
In the final analysis this loss Is a farm
loss, since a smaller price is paid for
eggs to provide for the poor and
broken eggs that go to the consumer.
loss of eggs In the United States each
year due to spoilage, breakage and In
efficient handling from the time the
egg Is produced on the farm until It
In addition to grain, mash and 1
water, birds need some grit to help
grind their food. Crushed stone,
oyster shell or coarsely ground dry
bone will serve tbe purpose. Such
things should always be kept before J
the fowls In proper boxes. Since tbe
blrds have no teeth, these substances
must be provided to help prepare thq
food for digestion,
T •
Baby Chick Is Stupid
Leghorns Economical Layers
Recent figures released by the Mich
igan State Poultry Improvement aaao- J
clatlon, and obtained from the Inter
national Egg Laying Contest, show
that the Leghorns are the most eco
nomlcal layers. The coat of Leghorn j
eggs was 14 cents per dozen ; the
Rocks came next with a coat of 21
cents per dozen.
Poultry Facts
Don't feed too much at a time.
• • •
More chickens are killed by feeding
too soon than by starving.
* - • « •
Faed five times a day for first two
weeks.
• « •
There are several good methods.
Um one.
- • • •
Keep rats, sknnks, etc., away from
chicks.
• • •
The cause of so many ducklings dy
ing Is the way they are fed.
• • •
Chicks most have greens, grit, grubs,
grain, gumption, ground, and direct
sunlight.
til
Keeping small sized hens is folly.
There isn't any too mach meat on
chicken bones, anyway,
• • •
Cabbage is rich in tbe green mate
rial needed for laying hens. About
six pounds of cabbage may be fed per
100 birds per day.
*
Early batched chicks can be most
easily obtained by using a reliable
incubator. - -
* • •
Watch yonr layers and don't feed
tbe flacker hen, It is always time to
cull when tbe Indications call for It
• • •
More than 250 chicks In one brood
Is an expensive and harmful risk to
take by anyone who haa a desire to
produce a lot with smalt equipment.
As the chicks grow, give them more
space.
ages do better with their own classes
Chicks of different sizes and
CORNS
' Lift Off-No Pain!
M
ÉD
r ® mov# every bard corn, soft corn, or
porn between the toes, and the foot
| rallnew. w ithout soreness or irritation,
^EEZONE
Oocun't hurt one bltl Drop a little
"Freeaoot" on an aching corn. Instant
ly that core atop« hurting, then short
ly yon lift It right off with fingen.
Tow druggist aells a tiny bottle of
Treeaone" for a few cents, sufficient to
PROTECTS BRUISES
Cover
other
"Vaseline" Jelly. Quickly
sooth»»and he al* . Takas sway
ths huit. Get
C hftitbrough Mtg, (xanptsir
State Sc New York
tx
a skia with
Vaseline
Use Guticnra Soap
And Ointment
To Heal Sore Hands
STOMACH TROUBLES
quickly leave. Oreei»*« August Flower
*• ® stomachic corrective, baa been
used for 60 years and haa given re
lief to thousands suffering with Indi
gestion, dyspepsia, constipation, etc.
At all druggists. 80c and 00c. If
you cannot get It, write
q. q. GREEN, INC, Woodbury, N. J.
Honduranian
British Honduras, to which Baron
Bliss has bequeathed 25,000 pounds
per annum, is one of the most back
ward of colonies, and has a long
standing reputation for free-and-easy
ways, even in the administration of
Justice. Some years ago, the story
goes, a man whose wlte eloped with
another, shot hla rival and was sen
tenced to a term of Imprison meat for
murder. A friend In Jflftmlc«, hear
Ing of his plight, went to tyondurgs
tfi Me what could be done. He found
the prisoner, accompanied or a
gaoler, transacting his ordinary busi
ness at his office. On the friend ex
plaining that he hoped to obtain his
release because he had acted within
th , .. anwr1t ten law," the criminal be
came violently excited and exclaimed :
« Bot D0) that u lmpot8 i b i e , j have
)et mjf house."—Pierre Van Paasaen,
{„ Atlanta Constitution,
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